To tune or not to tune, Oh what a question!!
I am reminded of this yesterday!
Customer comes in not with a Sprinter but a Dodge PU with Cummins 325 HP and 6 speeder!
CEL on now and again!
Its been tuned, and its been deleted says the owner!
OOOW!!! OHKAY!
Piqued my curiosity of course!
Certainly looking under the hood lots of luverly add ons and looking at the inside of its electronic head (PCM) with Cummins scanner it told me
"Oh I see its been well and truly dicked with"!
Who's handy work is this methinks?
I bet this engine is pumping 425 Horse more like!
Anyway I quickly traced the problem a leak on the HP FIE system!
OK let go for a test run , up the mountain!
At the steepest part on I/70 getting towards the Genessee Buffalo Lookout viewing area,
it came apart!.
Around 70 MPH in the outside lane at around 2000 r/m I got to make the biggest insect fogging session going in the whole wide world (whirled)
The whole Kahuna talk about 50 shades of grey!
Rolling coal young whipper snappers have nothing on me! This naughty old guy me, with 50 shades of grey thatch!
As I limped it off to the next exit, cars those lane choking ski traffic lot were gingerly emerging through the fug with curling smoke pirouettes, quite spectacular they were, as too the unrestrained fwendly hand gesticulations of occupants!!!
Denverites off the the slops all Rocky Mountain unrestrained high! (Note the duble entendre here!)
So it was call
Dicks Towing for a dicked truck!
What was the problem apart from the TUNE!!! You may ask!
Increased FIE pressure blew the tops off the injectors and raw flue at some indecent high pressure was being blown into the cylinders.
Into the oil as well!
I concluded this Dodge PU will produce the smell of heaps of green money--
Oh the aroma when you spend it in Roma!--- With my beloved !
Still late in the day there was the brighter side as a shall we say! Mature lady sprinter owner popped in for an ABS light on!
Being a cold day she was bundled up but normally she arrives during the summer months wearing baggy pairs of khaki shorts with
NO UNDERWEAR. Once stretched out the sofa in the reception area frequently dozing off she is famous for flashing her "brillo pad" to all and sundry!
It too I bet has 50 shades of grey as well, but I won't go there or close enough to find out!!! YUK!
So moral of this story from the workshop its called
unintended consequences!
Most of them are usually associated with
unintended expenditure!
Dennis
Mechanic
Who says fixn' stuff is boring!--Carry on dicking 'em up !